Consumers are the real job creators

Ask a business owner if, given a choice, she would rather increase her customers and the amount that customers spend, or she could remove "uncertainty." Is there any business owner who would say, no, I want the certainty of knowing exactly what percentage of taxes or kinds of taxes I'm going to pay and don't bother me with more business.

Who are the "job creators" who are so glorified in the speeches of our Republican politicians that raising a penny in increased revenue from them is sacrilegious? It is stunning that the only two sentences about the economy Republican politicians repeatedly parrot are: Uncertainty is why businesses are not doing as well as they could and we cannot increase taxes on the wealthy because they are job creators.

Here is the simple truth: The job creators are the public, the customers. Increasing the wealth of middle class will lead to consumer spending which will lead to increased jobs. How have Republican politicans gotten away with calling the very wealthiest the job creators, who then are shielded from even paying the same as medium income folks?

It is only appropriate for those who have benefited from government the most - wealthy individuals whose companies have enjoyed the protections of government - to give back what is still a very small rate, to the necessary investments that keep the cycle going. We need to change the spiral; it needs to start going up and we need to change it now.

Joy Singh

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